Justin Kuritzkes - Songs About My Wife

OK I will concede that "God Sent Me Here to Rock You" is weirdly catchy and hypnotic in a John Maus kind of way.  Maybe if she had more songs like that I would dig her.  But if there is a joke in any of the videos beyond creating a weird sense of uncanneyness then I don't get it, and the more of them I watch the more cringe-inducing they get. To me it comes off as embodying all the criticisms detractors make of PC Music: too caught up in ironic detachment and image construction without doing anything interesting musically. To my ears, at least: different strokes for different folks, etc.

I really have to disagree here.  You're right in that their music is generally fun and free-spirited I don't think that Soulja Boy or Lil B are trying to make a statement about music and culture anything like how Naomi Elizabeth is.  Of course you could critically read into "Yahh Trick Yahh!" or "I'm Miley Cyrus" enough to fill a Master's Thesis if you want but at the end of the day those two are artists who make very genuine music that comes from a raw place without a grand amount of thinking attached.  Lil B is maybe the ultimate impulsive artist living today, and while I don't doubt for a second that he's aware of the comedic value of what he's doing I don't think he or Soulja Boy are "acting" at all but that their music is a natural extension of themselves and their sense of humor.  With Naomi's stuff I definitely get the impression that the "Naomi Elizabeth" in the videos is a constructed character.  Like you with Lil B I can't say I am extremely knowledgable about her work but everything from the aloof straight-faces in her videos to quotes like "I compose and perform music, even though I largely hate music" on her Twitter suggest to me that she sees herself as a conceptual musician moreso than doing things in a very unfiltered way like Soulja Boy and Lil B.  There's nothing wrong with this approach at all imo, most of my favorite contemporary artists could be lumped into this category like Dean Blunt and PC Music, but there's a lot more fun in that stuff to me and Naomi Elizabeth just comes off to me as sterile and trying too hard.

I definitely agree with you about the comedic value of PC Music though.  The humor that's implicit in most of their material seems to go over most people's heads.  To be honest I think that it's a British thing that a lot of Americans don't pick up on.

I think quite often criticisms about whether a musician is 'conceptual' or not just leads to an endless back and forth questioning of the authenticity of artists. IMO Music, cos its art, is always conceptual... Whether it explores or presents the concepts in an interesting way is another question. Questions about an artists authenticty or whatever seem like a dead end to me. A piece of music can't represent an artists full existence or authentic world view, it's unfair to expect it to. Songs often create characters inevitably when the listener subjectively perceives what the lyrics/music is about.

If the previous paragraph is unclear to you, I'm sorry: it's unclear to me too.

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Period sex anthem 2k16

He posted this image today on facebook with the caption "Coming Soon #songsaboutmywife". I guess this is the album cover, and if it is, it's perfect.